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A Colorado Ute Indian bear dance
Southwestern lore • 7 (2) • Published In 1941 • Pages: 21-30
By: Opler, Marvin Kaufmann.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article describes a Bear Dance witnessed by Opler in 1936 at Towaoc on the Southern Ute Reservation. The account includes information on the organization of the event, the dances, dance paraphernalia, musical instruments, and beliefs about the dance and about bears.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Organized ceremonial
- Music
- Dance
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ute
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Eleanor C. Swanson; 1981
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1936-1937
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1936
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Towaoc, Colorado, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Marvin K. Opler
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 40002540
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ute Indians